The main reason for overeating, according to a US scientist, is not a lack of willpower at all, but the use of certain foods..

The cause of the overeating was revealed by University of California professor Dr. Robert Lustig.. Overeating in his book called Fat Chance, he called "

According to Lustig, to keep yourself from overeating, you need to exclude the following foods from your diet: white bread, sugar, confectionery and other foods that contain a lot of simple carbohydrates.. The latter, according to the scientist, deprive the brain of sensitivity to leptin, the “satiation hormone”, with the help of which the body reports that it has enough food.. When the brain stops hearing leptin signals, the food consumed continues to bring pleasure to a person, even if there is no longer a special need for it..

The development of obesity can be associated with some physiological characteristics of the human body.. In an earlier study presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, scientists found significant differences between obese and lean men and how they taste fat.. Fat has also been found to be less effective at stimulating a number of certain hormones in the alimentary canal of overweight men, which naturally suppress appetite by entering the blood stream..

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